Project for Public Spaces

Who We Are

Robin Lester

Manager, Marketing & Communications

Robin joined the PPS staff in 2008 as Manager of Marketing and Communications. She is responsible for overseeing PPS’s membership program, the PPS e-newsletter, promoting PPS publications and managing PPS’s website.  Since she began her work at PPS, Robin has implemented a plethora of online tools, including the PPS blog (Making Places) and the Placemaking Movement, a social networking site dedicated to the many facets of Placemaking.  She also manages PPS’s presence on Facebook, Twitter and Flickr, and is instrumental in delivering the message of PPS to local activists, community members, developers, policy makers and professionals from the architecture/planning and landscape design disciplines.

Robin is also an accomplished community blogger who founded and writes Clinton Hill Blog, a website devoted to local reporting and community member interviews and profiles in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Additionally, she is a freelance photographer and teaches both private and group tap dance lessons.

Prior to her arrival at PPS, Robin spent more than five years at Moon City Productions, a small niche marketing and advertising company, where she oversaw Subaru of America’s successful multi-year Presenting Sponsorship of the AIDS LifeCycle, a week-long cycling event to raise money for AIDS research and outreach.  She began her career marketing artists for major record labels.

Robin received her MA in Sociology from the New School for Social Research in New York City, where she focused on urban sociology, ethnography and the sociology of class. She is currently working on an ethnography of the blogging community in New York City.

Education

The New School for Social Research, Master of Arts, Sociology, 2008

Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, Bachelor of Science, Television, Radio and Film (magna cum laude), 2000